CALIFORNIA ADJUSTER PSI ACTUAL EXAM
SCRIPT 2026 COMPLETE QUESTIONS
VERIFIED ANSWERS INSURANCE CLAIMS
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⩥ Hippocrates. Answer: Father of medicine (postpartum fever)
⩥ Marcé. Answer: Puerperal mental illness
⩥ The lost years. Answer: 20th century psychiatry stopped studying pp
mood d/o's
⩥ Hamilton. Answer: 20th cent. Father of postpartum psych illness,
founded the marcé society
⩥ The marcé society. Answer: Founder 1980
⩥ "Support groups= most significant and useful" said by?. Answer:
Hamilton
⩥ When was PSI established?. Answer: 1987
,⩥ Who founded psi?. Answer: Honikman
⩥ DSM 5 postpartum onset specifier established when?. Answer: 1994
⩥ The only worldwide organization, over 40 countries. Answer: Psi
⩥ Psi objectives. Answer: ASCAPET (awareness, support, collaboration
and partnership, advocacy and policy, education and training)
⩥ Psi mission statement. Answer: APT (awareness, prevention,
treatment of issues related to childbearing worldwide)
⩥ Mind the gap. Answer: Roadmap of priorities
⩥ Perinatal time period. Answer: Conception to 1 yr after birth
⩥ Antenatal/prenatal period. Answer: Pregnancy
⩥ Postnatal/postpartum. Answer: 1 yr after birth
⩥ PMAD definition. Answer: Perinatal mood anxiety disorders
,⩥ How many infants born to depressed mothers?. Answer: 400,000
⩥ What is the most under diagnosed obstetric complication in
American?. Answer: Perinatal depression
⩥ How many women; men do PMADS affect?. Answer: 1 in 5-7; 1 in 10
⩥ How often are PMADS screened prenatally?. Answer: 21%
⩥ Costs and risks of untreated pmads. Answer: Relat/fam issues, issues
with med adherence, exacerbation of health issues, abuse and IPV,
lethality, SUDs, discontinuing breastfeeding, financial issues, issues with
development
⩥ How many pregnancies are unplanned?. Answer: 50%
⩥ "Seasons of receiving" by who?. Answer: Birdie Gunyon
⩥ Is postpartum depression universal?. Answer: Yes
⩥ Are the rates of perinatal depression in women throughout the world
similar?. Answer: Yes
, ⩥ Biology etiology theories. Answer: Sensitivities to hormones
(estrogen, progesterone, oxy/prolactin)
⩥ What does estrogen do?. Answer: Improve formation of blood vessels,
transfer neutrinos, supply fetal development
⩥ What does progesterone do?. Answer: Uterine development, ligament
and joint flexibility
⩥ When are oxytocin and prolactin released?. Answer: Birth
⩥ Biological risk factors. Answer: Endocrine dysfunction (thyroid,
fertility), mood reactions to hormone changes (puberty, the pill, pms,
pain, abrupt discontinuation of bfeeding), lack of sleep
⩥ Psychosocial etiology theories. Answer: Vulnerability (sleep,
genetics), psychosocial (relat with mother, ambivalence, self-image),
social (trauma, support, racism)
⩥ Psychosocial risk factors. Answer: Fam or personal hx of PMADS,
fam or personal hx of mental health, CSA
SCRIPT 2026 COMPLETE QUESTIONS
VERIFIED ANSWERS INSURANCE CLAIMS
LICENSING PREPARATION STUDY GUIDE
GRADED A+
⩥ Hippocrates. Answer: Father of medicine (postpartum fever)
⩥ Marcé. Answer: Puerperal mental illness
⩥ The lost years. Answer: 20th century psychiatry stopped studying pp
mood d/o's
⩥ Hamilton. Answer: 20th cent. Father of postpartum psych illness,
founded the marcé society
⩥ The marcé society. Answer: Founder 1980
⩥ "Support groups= most significant and useful" said by?. Answer:
Hamilton
⩥ When was PSI established?. Answer: 1987
,⩥ Who founded psi?. Answer: Honikman
⩥ DSM 5 postpartum onset specifier established when?. Answer: 1994
⩥ The only worldwide organization, over 40 countries. Answer: Psi
⩥ Psi objectives. Answer: ASCAPET (awareness, support, collaboration
and partnership, advocacy and policy, education and training)
⩥ Psi mission statement. Answer: APT (awareness, prevention,
treatment of issues related to childbearing worldwide)
⩥ Mind the gap. Answer: Roadmap of priorities
⩥ Perinatal time period. Answer: Conception to 1 yr after birth
⩥ Antenatal/prenatal period. Answer: Pregnancy
⩥ Postnatal/postpartum. Answer: 1 yr after birth
⩥ PMAD definition. Answer: Perinatal mood anxiety disorders
,⩥ How many infants born to depressed mothers?. Answer: 400,000
⩥ What is the most under diagnosed obstetric complication in
American?. Answer: Perinatal depression
⩥ How many women; men do PMADS affect?. Answer: 1 in 5-7; 1 in 10
⩥ How often are PMADS screened prenatally?. Answer: 21%
⩥ Costs and risks of untreated pmads. Answer: Relat/fam issues, issues
with med adherence, exacerbation of health issues, abuse and IPV,
lethality, SUDs, discontinuing breastfeeding, financial issues, issues with
development
⩥ How many pregnancies are unplanned?. Answer: 50%
⩥ "Seasons of receiving" by who?. Answer: Birdie Gunyon
⩥ Is postpartum depression universal?. Answer: Yes
⩥ Are the rates of perinatal depression in women throughout the world
similar?. Answer: Yes
, ⩥ Biology etiology theories. Answer: Sensitivities to hormones
(estrogen, progesterone, oxy/prolactin)
⩥ What does estrogen do?. Answer: Improve formation of blood vessels,
transfer neutrinos, supply fetal development
⩥ What does progesterone do?. Answer: Uterine development, ligament
and joint flexibility
⩥ When are oxytocin and prolactin released?. Answer: Birth
⩥ Biological risk factors. Answer: Endocrine dysfunction (thyroid,
fertility), mood reactions to hormone changes (puberty, the pill, pms,
pain, abrupt discontinuation of bfeeding), lack of sleep
⩥ Psychosocial etiology theories. Answer: Vulnerability (sleep,
genetics), psychosocial (relat with mother, ambivalence, self-image),
social (trauma, support, racism)
⩥ Psychosocial risk factors. Answer: Fam or personal hx of PMADS,
fam or personal hx of mental health, CSA
